Cherokee

Introduction

Sequoyah is credited with inventing the Cherokee syllabary in the early 1800s. It is used to write Cherokee / Tsalagi. Most Cherokee is now written using the Latin alphabet. Fluent, mother-tongue speakers of the language usually prefer the Cherokee syllabary to Latin transliteration. Many older Cherokee speakers, in fact, are unable to read Cherokee written with Latin characters--even those who use the Latin alphabet to write English.

Aboriginal Serif[ show all samples ]
(abserif4_5.ttf from abserif.zip) Note: Extensive coverage of Latin & Cyrillic characters with diacritics as well as Canadian Syllabic characters that were omitted from the Unicode Standard (encoded in the private use area). Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2004 initial release has 4,998 glyphs and 3 kerning pairsSupport: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Latin

Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about the Cherokee Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Cherokee block page (in English and German/Deutsch).